Mass Shootings

Mass shootings in my view must be seen as being linked to, and on a continuum with, on-going increases in our national suicide rate.  It’s just a way of killing yourself and making damn sure everyone remembers you, even though you felt overlooked and useless all your life.

Mass shootings can be expected to increase when mental health decreases across the board.  Again, like addicts, they are just canaries in the coal mine, telling us some basic constituent parts of our social order are fucked up.

And I will add that greed is every bit as at home in socialism as capitalism.  This is not “late capitalism”, and in point of fact if we are going to tally bodies, “Capitalism” is not even CLOSE to being as murderous a system as socialism, its purported antidote.

No, these are complex problems which will not respond to sound bites, will not be fixed by idiots telling us they know a simple solution, and which demand of us sobriety, discussion, and soul searching.

In other words, I don’t expect things to get better any time soon.  Arming yourself is likely the best single step towards personal empowerment you can take.